1st Night's Sunset While Backpacking This Weekend
This past Friday, I headed out backpacking with some friends and my camera about an hour's drive north from where I live in Truckee, California. I thought we were starting by going to Gold Lake but plans weren't set in stone and we ended up not seeing Gold Lake, however we started nearby and headed toward Long Lake. We got a fairly late start so we were focused on finding a camping spot as quickly as possible. The sunset colors happened while we were still hiking, so unfortunately I shot this photo handheld and not with a tripod and filters. It happened to be the only sunset/sunrise during the trip that had great colors. I wish I had more time to find an interesting foreground and compose the shot better, but sometimes you have to work with what you got.
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Long Lake, shot 9/14/2018.
Shot on a Canon 5DS R and a 24-105mm lens, with the lens set at 105mm. This is my go-to lens for backpacking when I only want the weight of one lens. Shot handheld with an ISO of 500. The shutter speed was 1/200, nice and fast for a handheld shot. This all led to a wide aperture of f4 in order to let in a lot of light. A good amount of adjustments were made to the RAW image in Photoshop's Camera RAW feature. The shadow areas were lightened up quite a bit and the color was balanced.
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oh wow that is stunning, the colours are amazing and the colour of the sky reflecting off the mountains, wow really beautiful, only nature can produce such beauty xxx
It was a pretty cool moment on our hike. I wish I had more time to stop and get better shots but really, I can't complain. Thank you mother nature! :)
It looks like a picture of fairy tales, very estimado friend @scottshots
Good vibes.
Cool, glad you like it @angelica7! It was incredible out there.
When we can enjoy a walk and also make beautiful photographs that gift will be for the memory our whole life, a hug.
Great landscape mate 💪💪
Thank you! It's a great area.
Absolutely stunning! Wow! Thank you of sharing!
Thank you @thecrypt0couple! Happy to share.
What a beautiful place. I've never been backpacking but I hope to one day. Beautiful shot, even if it isn't what you would have preferred.
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It's a beautiful place indeed! Backpacking is great, kind of pricey to start but worth it in my opinion. I hope you and the family are doing awesome!
We are doing well :) we went to steemcreators in Toronto which was fun. We're pretty busy but enjoying life.
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Great to hear! Yeah, I saw some of the posts from steemcreators. Looked like a lot of fun and I'm bummed I missed it. But I'm hoping to go to the Austin one in the spring... Cheers!
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